Help! My Desktop Icons are Missing!!!

[Oliver Schiinke]

Strange things happens in my system HP-UX 11.11, the background of my login screen are gray, (is not normal, the normal is black), and more, my icons in Desktop are MISSING!!! All of them, what´s happens???

Please, if anybody knows this problem, aswer-me...

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom Oliver,

Could be your .dtprofile and related .dt folders have been deleted.

Could be someone else owns them and they can't be read.

If you are an admin, see about restoring those files or checking their permissions. If you are a user, ask your admin to do that for you.

SEP

[MarkSyder]

This sounds like a DCE problem. Are you logging in at the console or via telnet? If console have you tried telnet (and vice versa)?

Are you able to reboot to see if that clears the fault?

Mark Syder (like the drink but spelt different)

[Oliver Schiinke]

Shalom Steven, the .dtprofile and .dt folders are normaly. I´m admin and can´t resolve this problem. After 4 times full instalation system, it happens again and again and again... unsolve :-(

[Oliver Schiinke]

Hi Mark, I´m logged localy, and reboot the system do not solve de problem.

[MarkSyder]

Oliver,

In a terminal session cd to your home directory, cd .dt, and have a look at the errorlog in case it provides any clues.

Mark

[Oliver Schiinke]

Mark, the message of errorlog are follows:

-- -- -- --
*** INFORMATION(0): dtwm: PID 4378: Wed Feb 01 14:22:13 2006
Workspace Manager: Unable to read bitmap file Fpterm
-- -- -- --

Thank´s

[Oliver Schiinke]

...and...

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[Mark Ellzey]

Oliver,

Try the following:

cd to your home dir.
mv .dt .dt.save
log off and log back in.

I've seen this happen when one or more files in the .dt directory is corrupt. By moving the old directory out of the way, when you next login, the system creates a new default .dt directory.

Now, you will only have the default screen that is defined in CDE, but you can recreate your icons and change your desktop, if you wish.

Regards,
Mark

[Oliver Schiinke]

Well, whem I access the HP-UX Station via XDMCP (remote access), all appear to be normal with all icons!!! Anymore else???

[V. Nyga]

Hi,

have you searched for the bitmap file 'Fpterm'?

Check owner and permissions.

HTH
Volkmar